The Effect of the Brochure on Testicular Self-Exam

Testicular Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of the Brochure Given to University Students on Testicular Cancer and Its Early Diagnosis on Health Beliefs and Testicular Self-Examination

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05073198
• Other study ID #: 20202002
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 5, 2019
• Est. completion date: June 16, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2021
• Source: Selcuk University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to examine the effect of the educational brochure given to university students on testicular cancer and its early diagnosis on their health beliefs and self-examination; In non-randomized groups, pretest-posttest was conducted in a quasi-experimental design with control group. The research was carried out with students studying in the psychological counseling and guidance department of a state university in Turkey. The study group consisted of 92 students, 48 of which were experimental and 44 were control. Only the experimental group was given an educational brochure about testicular cancer and testicular self-examination. Data; Personal information form, testicular cancer and health beliefs scale about testicular self-examination were collected with the form for self-examination. In the evaluation of the data; Mann Whitney U, Wilcoxon and chi-square analyzes were performed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 92
• Est. completion date: June 16, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 20, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• To study in the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance

• Studying in 3rd and 4th grade

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any previous diagnosis of cancer

• Having received previous training in Testicular Self Examination

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Testicular Cancer
• Testicular Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• Education brochure
In the content of the brochure about testicular cancer and CCTM prepared in line with the literature; It includes information such as the definition of testicular cancer, testicular cancer risk factors and symptoms, the importance of early diagnosis in testicular cancer, how CCTM is performed, and what to do in case of differences after the examination. Expert opinion was obtained from three faculty members (a professor from the Department of Urology, a professor in Public Health Nursing and a physician faculty member) regarding the content validity of the educational brochure created before the research.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Selcuk University	Konya	Selcuklu

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Selcuk University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	rate of testicular self-exam	After the training brochure given to the students, they are expected to do testicular examination on their own.	after 4 weeks